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(139 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)Initech
(100,033 posts)passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)geretogo
(1,281 posts)I'm tired of all of the above!
daschess1987
(192 posts)zeemike
(18,998 posts)This shit has been going on for decades now with no end in sight...and when we have hope for change we do get fooled again.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Remember a few years back, how General Electric Corporation owed no taxes at all?
How about pharmaceutical companies? And on and on.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024350568
America, Incorporated.
herding cats
(19,558 posts)K&R!
CrispyQ
(36,419 posts)~kick
Tribalceltic
(1,000 posts)sooooo tired
demigoddess
(6,640 posts)This is exactly why we have to vote out all republicans and put pressure on the democrats to move left.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Hell-to-the-yeah!
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)It's so weird. We give and give and give to the rich, and contrary to everything we've been told they just ... keep it.
Huh.
AAO
(3,300 posts)indepat
(20,899 posts)unionthug777
(740 posts)just got home from work !!
Mosby
(16,256 posts)mikeysnot
(4,756 posts)that is going to get one particular DU user's undies in a bundle...
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)K&R
JohnnyRingo
(18,618 posts)I've heard Bill O'Reilly take the serious side of this argument where he carps about how he "donates money" to the "social programs" he approves of, so he doesn't want his taxes to go to people he presumably doesn't think is deserving enough. He explains this with a surprisingly straight face.
The point is lost to him that everyone has a short list of things we don't want the govt spending our tax money on, but no one in charge cares. He just thinks he's freaking special because he's on TV and he "works hard for his money", as he so snobbishly puts it.
K&R. Thanx for posting.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)Because if we got to choose, I don't think I'd pay the taxes that go toward bombing other countries.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)isnt tired or maybe they boycott all your threads. Just as well they'd only bring........
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)PatrickforO
(14,558 posts)The idiots on welfare are:
1. CEO's and Boards of Directors who continue to 'vote' each other exorbitant salaries while driving their labor further into poverty
2. The corporate managers who consistently put policies in place to maximize profits at the expense of their workers and their customers
3. Those same corporations who are only hiring part time people and not offering any benefits
4. The corporations who steal pensions from workers and fight tooth and nail to break unions
5. The Congress which created tax loopholes that allow over 30 Fortune 500 companies to not pay any income tax
6. The neoconservatives who blindly believe that keeping this nation on a constant war footing is a good idea because then retiring generals can have cushy jobs while our weapons kill innocent people worldwide
7. The neoliberals who blindly believe that we should deregulate, privatize and cut out social spending so we can have a much less restrained version of capitalism
As my parents used to say, these people are burning both ends against the middle, and pretty soon there won't be any middle left. Then, when people rise up in massive social unrest that turns into a horrible, bloody anarchy, what they think they have built will disappear. Hopefully, this monstrous and brutal way of life can be replaced by a world of social and economic justice.
Think we're capable as a species of making this world what it should be?
Nah. We are the only species of which it can be said that if we went extinct, all other life on the planet would actually be better off.